Problem updating Kodipup 64

[Lassar]

Have been trying to figure out, why addon updating in kodipup 64 fails.

It looks to me,that it is a directory permissions problem.

Kodi uses a data directory called .kodi

When I create a new folder named kodi, and copy the contents of .kodi over to this folder,
and rename this folder to .kodi, then addon updating succeeds.

This implies that it might be a folders permissions problem.

I don't know much about linux permissions.

Want to see if changing the permissions on the .kodi folder will fix this problem.

What command can I use, that will give the .kodi folder absolute permissions?

[musher0]

Hello Lassar.

Here's how to do it from terminal,
assuming your .kodi directory is at /root/.kodi.

I don't know much about kodi, so please check where the dir. should be.
However the following procedure is valid for any directory that you wish
to change the permission of.

Please read the code below and the comments -- and make sure that
you understand what it does -- before trying it out.

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cd /root # Go to your /root directory

mkdir -p .kodi # This command refreshes the .kodi directory (non destructive) # Optional

ls -lad .kodi # This command checks the current permissions for directory .kodi
drwx------ 2 root root 1024 jun 28 19:23 .kodi/

chmod -R 777 .kodi # This gives directory .kodi full permissions (read+write+execute for user, group and world).

ls -lad .kodi # We check the permissions again.
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 jun 28 19:23 .kodi/ # Result: directory .kodi now has full permissions.

If you want to limit the access permissions to the user only, meaning:
yourself, type

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chmod -R 700 .kodi 

If you want to limit the access permissions to yourself and your group
only, type

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chmod -R 770 .kodi 

IHTH. Keep us posted?

BFN.

[bigpup]

I suggest you post this in the Kodipup topic, so the person that developed Kodipup can see and respond to issues with Kodipup.

[Lassar]

I suggest you post this in the Kodipup topic, so the person that developed Kodipup can see and respond to issues with Kodipup.

I developed kodipup.

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[Lassar]

Been doing some more research and testing.

It's definitely not permissions.


It looks like it could be file attributes.

Copying files from one directory to another, would not copy the file attributes.

I tried lsattr, and got "lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /root/.kodi/system".


I can't even use lsattr to check this theory.

I guess, I will just have to do a hack to get addon updates to work.

[theru]

You can use lsattr when you access the file directly:

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# lsattr /root/test
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /root/test
# lsattr /initrd/pup_rw/root/test
---------------- /initrd/pup_rw/root/test

When you cd to the directory containing the file first you can avoid having to type the full path

[perdido]

I tried lsattr, and got "lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /root/.kodi/system".
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Thats the same error I get when running lsattr on a windows (fat32/ntfs) partition.

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